The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-04-16

' ""s0 hoisteIs tiidl pun |
an" blow like lesiathans ape ccln-
pressing by day and by night in tie
Gotten season. Savannah is indeed
poftr7.a great port our pert, and is
the Receiving and distributing point
for iha produce and the Merchandise
OF vast era of territory. Fron these
Whhrgcs we took II CiloUit around
| ana among the truck farms that
seemed to haye no limit, and Just as
far AS the eye could reach there were
s2fdeEs--vegetabie gardens thous-
ands ofacres in cablages and potatoes
and peas and beans and heels and
onions and all the garden vegetables.
Some OF them gave signs Of rost, but
not many. f!cares OF negroes. large
and small, were picking the peas, and
they are boxed rapidly and hurried
to the steamships fof expectation. 1t
is lively times in these truck farms
| now, and is said to he very prGtita-
bic business.
met one Of the oldest Inhabitants
| in Colonel Es!i!l's otloe--NIr. T.. w.
Habersha,n, who is u Ben; perley
! Moore in memories of the ollen time
and he discoursed pleasantly Of the
days Of Van Buren, and Calhoun and
Webster, anG told me of his visit to
| Poland with j. Fennimore Cooper
! and Morse, the inventor, and of his
| interviews with General Lafayette.
! Mr., llabegsllam was q classmate OF
! jos T.. lohn-ton at West Point and
Robert T.. Lee was "a cadet at the
same time.
One evening ! was quietly sitting
| in the reading room of the -creven
! House, when a stately gentleman
came and seated himself in front on
me and said: "Now, look at me and
see if YOU have forgotten one Of your
old classmates Well looked and
pondered and was about to give it up
when he said: "l.at me call the roll
and then maybe you wi!lhe remild-
ed and he began with the old
familiar names, "A Han, Ashley, An
derson. Bancroft. Bacon, Briscoe,
Camak, Cassidy, Cody, Farmer,
Grant, Hardec, Howard, Hull,
Hughes" Stop, said |. This is Dan
Hughes, and it was, 80 we got close
up together and talked of the college
days ana the buys who were living
and those who were dead, | found
Charlie Hardee there, too. He is the
city treasurer and old father time has
whitrned him up and wrinkled him
lust like he has me-~we want to get
up q reunion of the boys this next
sumnler--not simply of our class, but
of all our college mates for the years
'46 and ". We can gather about
thirty that are in reach, and we want
to attend the next college commence
ment at Athens and strut around
like sages and patrarchs and fix up
some Munchausen stories wherewlth
to amaze the present generation that
il drinking in knowledge at the uni
versity. reckon that Henry Grady
and his crowd wouldn't run over us,
but would raise their hats out of re-
spect for our age, if nothing else.
There is one serious trouble, though
about meandering over the country
now. These railroads won't even
give anybody excursion rates and
free passes are all abolished. 1t cost
me S25 to 20 to Savannah and back
again, including the sleeper. They
won't sell a thousand mile ticket,
They recognize the power of the pull
nit a little, and will let u preacher
| travel for two cents Il mile, but they
won't recognize the power OF the
press at all. An editor has got to
nav lust like white man. Wei, II
| iet $40 that the editor, knock that
whole State bill into pi at the
next session of congress. How are
the members of the Legislature going
to get to Atlanta: And what viii
the negroes do about excursions?
They say the new law goes into effect
the first day of April, "all fools day, "
and reckon there will be many "A
fellow fooled for the next twelve
months. One thing we ali can do and
/ that is to stay at home. There are
five passenger trains each way on the
State road, and hereafter ! reckon
about two can do the business.
Well, April has come at last, ana
now reckon spring will surely come.
II ought to. for that is the meaning
of the word. April comes from a
Latin word that means "to open"
and the name was given hecanse the
earth opens for vegetation to spring
up. One thing that | want Judge
u.